Rosie's Banner Falls From Plane Onto Power Lines, Flowers

For the second time in two weeks, a Church Street Station promotional banner has fallen from one of the entertainment complex's airplanes over Orlando.

The banner landed shortly after 3 p.m. Friday between two houses on Seabreeze Court in southwest Orlando, with part of it coming to rest in a flower bed and most of it sitting atop power lines.

No one was injured when the banner fell.

Lewis and Ella Stanton of 2512 Seabreeze Court, who own the flower bed, were home at the time but didn't hear anything.

''We didn't know anything about it until a neighbor knocked and told us this was in our front yard,'' Mrs. Stanton said.

Jo Ferguson of 2508 Seabreeze also was home, but didn't hear or see anything. The majority of the banner landed on power lines between the two homes.

Workers for the Church Street entertainment complex and the Orlando Utilities Commission picked up the banner about an hour after it fell.

Church Street Station officials referred questions to Joe Kittinger, vice president for flight operations. Kittinger did not return phone calls from a reporter Friday or Saturday.

It was the fourth incident involving a Church Street plane since last November. Two of the incidents were fatal crashes.

On Nov. 5, pilot Greg Hill, trying to pick up a banner at Orlando Executive Airport, apparently lost power and crashed into a hangar under construction at the airport's west end. Hill, 26, died the next day.

A Church Street skywriting plane flown by veteran pilot Robert Favreau, 43, collided with a twin-engine Cessna over the Rosemont area on May 1. Favreau and all three people aboard the Cessna were killed.

On June 14, a banner fell from a Church Street plane over the Florida Highway Patrol station on east Colonial Drive. No one was injured.

According to Greater Orlando Aviation Authority records, Church Street pilots had twice before dropped banners -- once in February 1985 in the parking lot of the Colonial Plaza mall and again a month later over the executive airport.